1. Discovering new drugs and
diagnostics from 300 billion
points of data
Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Systems Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics,
Department of Medicine, and, by courtesy,
Computer Science
Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, LPCH
Stanford University
abutte@stanford.edu
@atulbutte
@ImmPortDB

2. Disclosures
• Scientific founder and
advisory board membership
– Genstruct
– NuMedii
– Personalis
– Carmenta
• Past or present consultancy
– Lilly
– Johnson and Johnson
– Roche
– NuMedii
– Genstruct
– Tercica
– Ansh Labs
– Prevendia
– Samsung
– Assay Depot
• Honoraria
– Lilly
– Pfizer
– Siemens
– Bristol Myers Squibb
• Speakers’ bureau
– None
• Companies started by students
– Carmenta
– Serendipity
– NuMedii
– Stimulomics
– NunaHealth
– Praedicat
– Flipora

3. Kilo
Mega
Giga
Tera
Peta
Exa
Zetta

7. Total 1.2 million microarrays available
Doubles every 2-3 years
Butte AJ. Translational Bioinformatics:
coming of age. JAMIA, 2008.

10. Protein

17. Protein

18. Protein

21. Lamb J, ..., Golub TR. Science, 2006.
Sirota M, Dudley JT, ..., Sweet-Cordero A, Sage J, Butte AJ.
Science Translational Medicine, 2011.
Marina Sirota
Joel Dudley

27. Anti-seizure drug works against a rat model of
inflammatory bowel disease
Dudley JT, Sirota M, ..., Pasricha J, Butte AJ. Science Translational Medicine, 2011.
Marina Sirota
Joel Dudley
Mohan M Shenoy
Jay Pasricha

28. Rat colonoscopy Rat with
Inflammatory
Bowel Disease
Inflammatory
Bowel Disease
After
Anti-seizure Drug
Dudley JT, Sirota M, ..., Pasricha J, Butte AJ. Science Translational Medicine, 2011.

29. October 3, 2012 4:02 pm by Deanna Pogorelc | 1 Comments
Pairing existing drugs with new disease applications, using not wet labs but
computers, has landed a Stanford startup its first contract with a pharmaceutical
company.
Using data to find new drug-disease matches
wins startup NuMedii its first pharma deal
Drug development
NuMedii lands 1st deal to spin drug data into product gold
San Francisco Business Times by Ron Leuty, Reporter
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 5:30am PDT - Last Modified: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 6:27am PDT
Ron Leuty
Reporter- San Francisco Business
Times
NuMedii Inc. is looking to make a big difference in drug
development with Big Data.
The Mountain View company co-founded by Stanford
University’s Atul Butte and his wife, former Affymetrix
executive Gini Deshpande, said Wednesday that it inked a
deal to help drug developer Aptalis Pharma Inc. find new
treatments for gastrointestinal disorders and cystic fibrosis.
Stanford University professor and NuMedii
co-founder Atul Butte.

30. John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, “has directed Federal
agencies with more than $100M in R&D
expenditures to develop plans to make the
published results of federally funded research
freely available to the public within one year of
publication and requiring researchers to better
account for and manage the digital data resulting
from federally funded scientific research.”

31. 108 million substances x
650,000 assays
1 billion points of data
within a grid of
70 trillion cells

34. We are used to kids starting computer,
mobile, and internet companies in
garages and dorm rooms...

35. We are used to kids starting computer,
mobile, and internet companies in
garages and dorm rooms...
Maybe kids today need to start
“garage biotechs”?

36. Take Home Points
• Big Data is out there: molecular, clinical,
individual, epidemiological.
We can get to diagnostics and therapeutics.
• A new generation of investigators will imagine new
questions and discoveries from these repositories
of clinical and genomic measurements.
• We can use big data to understand why diseases
occur and what we can do about treating them.

37. Collaborators
• Jeff Wiser, Patrick Dunn, Mike Atassi / Northrop Grumman
• Ashley Xia and Quan Chen / NIAID
• Takashi Kadowaki, Momoko Horikoshi, Kazuo Hara, Hiroshi Ohtsu / U Tokyo
• Kyoko Toda, Satoru Yamada, Junichiro Irie / Kitasato Univ and Hospital
• Shiro Maeda / RIKEN
• Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, Julien Sage / Pediatric Oncology
• Mark Davis, C. Garrison Fathman / Immunology
• Russ Altman, Steve Quake / Bioengineering
• Euan Ashley, Joseph Wu, Tom Quertermous / Cardiology
• Mike Snyder, Carlos Bustamante, Anne Brunet / Genetics
• Jay Pasricha / Gastroenterology
• Rob Tibshirani, Brad Efron / Statistics
• Hannah Valantine, Kiran Khush/ Cardiology
• Ken Weinberg / Pediatric Stem Cell Therapeutics
• Mark Musen, Nigam Shah / National Center for Biomedical Ontology
• Minnie Sarwal / Nephrology
• David Miklos / Oncology

38. Support
• Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
• NIH: NIAID, NLM, NIGMS, NCI; NIDDK, NHGRI, NIA, NHLBI, NCATS
• March of Dimes
• Hewlett Packard
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• Scleroderma Research Foundation
• Clayville Research Fund
• PhRMA Foundation
• Stanford Cancer Center, Bio-X
• Tarangini Deshpande
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